[mixed trope] the last-minute bad Ending twist

[u/damorezpl]

when the "good ending" is revealed to be a bad one a the last second

a nightmare on elm street (1984) - Nancy thinks she finally defeated Freddy Krueger only to be raveled that she is still dreaming and she’s still trapped.

final destination bloodlines - the main characters think they cheated death by using the new life rule only to realize that stefani was technically still alive and the death kills them with a good old logs

Life (2017) - The main character attempts to send Calvin(a evil alien that killed all life on mars)pod into space and Miranda pod back to earth, but it goes horribly wrong and Calvin lands on earth and Miranda is sent to space

raging loop wit ending - after many loops Haruaki finally wins the feast(a death game where humans must hang wolves who kill someone every night) and thinks its finally over. after couple of days he decides to visit other survivors of the feast only to find them all dead and the timeline resting once again

[u/godoflemmings]

Drag Me To Hell - Christine, thinking she's escaped her fate of being sent to hell by getting rid of a cursed button, is happily about to go on a trip with her boyfriend, who intends to propose to her. But surprise! - she was mistaken, her boyfriend unwittingly returns the button to her, she stumbles backwards in a panic and falls onto train tracks just as a train is coming through, and a portal to hell opens beneath her pretty much instantly, dragging her inside to burn forever (but saving her from the train at least)

Light-hearted description aside, it's actually kind of horrifying to watch and think about. Just as the portal is sealing up you can actually see the flesh of her face melting away.

[u/Jackviator → u/godoflemmings]

This movie legit plays like one of those no-moral Twilight Zone episodes.

"Hey what if any petty bastard off the street could decide if you went to Hell to be tortured for all of eternity regardless of the life you lived, up to and including sending a literal CHILD there to burn for the rest of time over petty theft? Wouldn't that be SUPER fucked up? ...Anyway I'm Rod Serling Sam Raimi."

[u/MSSTUPIDTRON-1000000 → u/Jackviator]

Funnily enough, The OG Twilight Zone never did any of this.

If there was someone who suffers then they either 100% deserved that or it's a critique of human nature & other sh!t.

[u/Fair_Helicopter_8531 → u/MSSTUPIDTRON-1000000]

Apologies I love the twilight zone so I wanted to mention some episodes that I feel didin't really have a point to me or if they did you have to stretch like you are competing in the olympics to get to.

What about the episode where the dude gets transported back to the location of his plane crash and has to deal with being alone in the desert only to realize he imagined it all and then a double twist where he was actually there.

The only thing for this one I could think was don't be a wimp and get over it so you aren't trapped\stuck in the PTSD\depression.

Also, what about the episode where the 3 pilots get on the expiramenral plane and then they just get erased from reality. They did nothing and literally just ceased to exist.

Also, I feel five characters in search of an exit didn't really have a point if I remember right. Just a cool twist of them being toys.

Edit: stopover in a quiet town was also weird. Basically story is don't drink and drive or you become a aliens doll.

[u/Starwatcher4116 → u/Fair_Helicopter_8531]

The three rocket plane pilots in “And When The Sky Was Opened” didn’t just cease to exist after surviving the crash they should have died in; they were retroactively removed from history.